I was hoping that 2017 would deal with the many really difficult problems that arise from multiple monitors. Multiple monitors is becoming a very common configuration, especially for people dealing with music technology. I have 3 monitors on the machine that runs BIAB. BIAB is the only app that seems to have severe problems with this, and it actually got a little worse with 2017. Typical problems include:

1) At startup, the app doesn't remember its prior coordinates, nor does it check to make sure that the coordinates it is using are sensible. It just starts on monitor one every time. For me, monitor 1 is not where I do my work. It is where I put the ash and trash I don't want to look at all the time.

2) So when I launch BIAB, I immediately have to drag it to another monitor. With any other app, you can drag to another monitor, then click Maximize and it will use the full screen. Not BIAB. Maximize is all screwed up. It only uses 2/3 of the width, and the vertical dimensions are off the bottom of the screen. So I have to carefully mouse that window to more-or-less use all the real estate.

3) But then if I do anything that opens another window, you have that same problem all over again. This especially bad with the style picker. It comes up three times too large with the top half of the page truncated. It takes 30 seconds of mousing to drag and stretch and crop to get that style picker into some sensible position.

4) Those problems all existed at 2016. With 2017, it is worse. Now if you want to edit the name of the song, for example, that pops up another window. But I have my BIAB app running on the second monitor and that text editing dialog come up on Monitor 1. That's crazy. It should come up on the monitor where the app is running, and right below the box that is being edited. For me, monitor 1 is set to a screen resolution that is barely legible because I use that monitor mainly for icons. So when I edit a BIAB title, I can't read the text in that popup window -- and you can't drag that window to a monitor with better resolution.

What will it take to get these things fixed? This is very closely related to the complaints about 64-bit. The generic issue is that the environment is evolving and BIAB seems to be trapped 10-15 year behind where the platform technology is today. BIAB is truly the only app I have that has any trouble with this.

BIAB: 2023 UltraPak
DAWs: StudioOne 5 Pro, Cubase 12 Pro
Audio: Scarlett 18i20
OS: Win10 64-bit CPU: Haswell 4790 Mem: 24 GB Vid: GTX-760Ti

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